Nearest Communities to Hillsboro,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hillsboro, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hillsboro:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Hillsboro is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Carbon County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carbon County: Big Horn, Park, Stillwater, Yellowstone, Big Horn (WY) & Park (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hillsboro. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Carbon County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Hillsboro (which is Carbon County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Hillsboro
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carbon County (where Hillsboro resides)
- County Seat for Carbon: Red Lodge
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Carbon County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Carbon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Carbon County
- Nearest Communities to Hillsboro ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hillsboro.
- Dryhead ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Warren
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Bowler ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Wade
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Big Horn County
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- Nearest Communities to Hillsboro ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hillsboro.
- Fort Smith
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Smith
- Fort Smith is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Smith <5>
- Pryor
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pryor have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pryor
- Pryor is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pryor <5>
- Big Horn County
- County Seat for Big Horn: Basin (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Big Horn County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Big Horn County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Big Horn County
- Nearest Communities to Hillsboro ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hillsboro.
- Kane ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Cowley
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowley
- Cowley is located in Big Horn County (WY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 747 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cowley <5>
- Lovell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovell
- Lovell is located in Big Horn County (WY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,327 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovell <5>
- Frannie
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frannie
- Frannie is located in Big Horn County (WY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frannie <5>
- Deaver
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deaver
- Deaver is located in Big Horn County (WY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 178 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deaver <5>
- Byron
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron
- Byron is located in Big Horn County (WY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 592 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Byron <5>
- Himes
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Park County
- County Website: www.parkcounty.us/
- County Seat for Park: Cody (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- Nearest Communities to Hillsboro ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hillsboro.
- Mantua
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Garland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
- Garland is located in Park County (WY)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hillsboro) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hillsboro. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1000, Longitude: -108.2329 In this case, the coordinates for Hillsboro have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hillsboro, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |